Word: witting
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...real-life molehills. Roberts' first written dissent, published six months after he joined the court, seemed to accuse the majority of making the world safe for wife beaters. The case at hand dealt with a fillip in the vast edifice of Fourth Amendment law governing police searches. To wit: What if a husband and wife are together at their home and the wife invites the police in to search for her husband's drug paraphernalia but the husband says no? Is the consent of just one spouse sufficient? Previous courts had handled the slightly different instance in which one spouse...
...people there, common wisdom insists, are weirdoes, losers, those whose life plans have not panned out. Otherwise they would be out there in the “scene” that dozens of them claim to be tired of, meeting people on their own and charming them with their wit (44 posts), intelligence (545), or quality of being “hottt” (2). Whenever I want to tell friends or roommates about a particularly humorous ad I’ve discovered, I must first weigh my options. Is it worth admitting that I read Craigslist? That I read...
...astonishment and wondered what crisis was about to take place. Perhaps all the women would realize that they have the same dress on and start fighting each other.But no one seemed to notice that they were identical to anyone else. Instead, people seemed to think they were startling individuals.To wit: “What did you do this summer, man?” said one chap in a fedora to another.“I worked at a record company and I did some art. It was sick. What...
...cleave to rules and strictures that seem to do him only harm. In Guy’s eventual attainment of happiness, Waugh crafts a condemnation of a modernity that discards traditions simply for the sake of discarding them, a modernity he paints as disordered and disconnected. The dry wit and fantastic characters for which Waugh is famous neatly counterbalance the enormity of Guy’s personal journey, as Waugh raises questions about progress and society that seem just as relevant and countercultural today as they did 50 years...
Indeed, sitting in a ninth-floor studio of her New York City atelier, Wang comes across like the overachiever who is also a rebel, the A student who ditches class more than once in a while. She has delicate Asian features but packs a wallop of American wit. Her look is feminine and slight, yet she dresses, she says, "like a boy." (Today, it's Yohji Yamamoto black leggings, black T shirt, charcoal ribbed cashmere sweater and a phenomenally oversize jeweled cross.) Partway through college at Sarah Lawrence, she left for Paris, presumably to study, but it was really...